A DFID funded project undertaken by the British Geological Survey in collaboration with other organisations.

Managed Aquifer Recharge: an assessment of its role and effectiveness in watershed management (10.3 Mb) Final report of AGRAR project

Further details (PDF, 163 kb)

Poster giving a brief description of the project (553 kb)

Augmenting Groundwater Resources by Artificial Recharge (AGRAR) - Inception report for the research site at Aravalli Hills, Gujarat, India, prepared by Vikram Sarabhai Centre for Development Interaction (VIKSAT) (pdf 4836 kb, click to download)

Ensuring Drinking Water Security through Rainwater Harvesting. An audiovisual presentation. An interactive CD that also helps you to compute rainwater harvesting potential. Produced by, and available from, VIKSAT [www.viksat.org/rwh.htm] with support from UNESCO, New Delhi.

Augmenting Groundwater Resources by Artificial Recharge AGRAR Inception Report For the research site at Kodangipalayam village, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu, prepared by the Water Technology Centre, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) (pdf 1180 kb, click to download)

The effectiveness of Artificial Recharge of groundwater: a review AGRAR - Phase 1 Final Report. I Gale, I Neumann, R Calow, M Moench, BGS 2002 (pdf 2769 kb, click to download)

Augmenting Groundwater in Kathmandu Valley: Challenges and possibilities Ajaya Dixit and Madhukar Upadhya, Nepal Water Conservation Foundation Kathmandu, Nepal January 2005 (pdf 531 kb, click to download)

Numerical Approaches for Approximating Technical Effectiveness of Artificial Recharge Structures
I Neumann, J Barker, D MacDonald, I Gale, BGS, Groundwater Systems and Water Quality Programme, CR/04/265N (pdf 2215 kb, click to download)

Groundwater exploration and augmentation efforts in Rajasthan - A Review M.S. RATHORE, Institute of development studies, Jaipur, India, February, 2005 (pdf 1025 kb, click to download)

AGRAR Case Study Kolwan valley site, Pune district, Maharashtra, India Prepared by Advanced Center for Water Resourced Development and Management (ACWADAM), July 2005 (pdf 12,985 kb, click to download)

The BGS has undertaken a preliminary investigation to identify the hydrogeological potential for ASR in England and Wales, to clarify relevant regulatory issues and to identify research issues that are constraining development. Some of these issues have been investigated in a project called ASR-UK which started work in April 1999 and reported in 2001. The final report, released in 2002 outlines the hydrogeological issues associated with aquifer storage and recovery in the UK.

An international survey to document the current status of operational and research artificial recharge sites is being conducted by Ivan Johnson for ASCE/EWRI (American Society of Civil Engineers/Environmental and Water Resources Institute). Members with artificial recharge sites of any type are requested to complete the survey form and return it to Ivan. (Forms are available from Ivan or Peter Dillon, see Contacts). This will help in summarising the state of artificial recharge in 2001, and will be a valuable benchmarking document. You can mail forms back to Ivan or email them back to Peter Dillon.

A piggy-back survey (see above) which is restricted to assessing only changes in water quality where injection wells are used, is being conducted for AWWARF (American Water Works Association Research Foundation) by Peter Dillon. Please complete the survey form (available from http://www.bankfiltration.org/ under News/Announcements, or email Peter at peter.dillon@csiro.au.